Get available controls from a Form

Question

How do I get available controls from a Windows Forms form using C#?

Answer 1

Try this method in your form. It will recursively get all controls on your form, and their children:

public static List GetControls(Control form)
{
    var controlList = new List();

    foreach (Control childControl in form.Controls)
    {
        // Recurse child controls.
        controlList.AddRange(GetControls(childControl));
        controlList.Add(childControl);
    }
    return controlList;
}

Then call it with a:

List availControls = GetControls(this);